[WikiEN-l] Getting hammered in a tv interview is not fun

[Stan Shebs]

Jimmy Wales wrote:
> I hope the horse I am beating is still alive: we have to be absolutely 
> ruthless about removing "I think I heard it somewhere" 
> pseudo-information from Wikipedia, and especially from biographies.
>   
About the only way to keep up with the drivel is to insta-revert 
unsourced stuff. It just takes too long to find a source for somebody 
else's edit, or ask about each one on a talk page; while you're doing 
all that, ten other pages are picking up garbage.

Just today I got a congratulatory email from someone praising us for 
quickly finding his hoax article, and bragging a little about what he 
did to make it seem more plausible, fake picture and all. What does one 
do about people for whom WP is just another online game?

There's always the option of refusing TV interviews - then you could be 
the "mysterious recluse". :-)

Stan